Current Affairs 2024

[Ray B]

Keith, them sticks/twigs, some looked as big as pick axe handles and could give you a nasty injury

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not against a few Tasers!

It gets worse. It seems that later a French patrol boat intercepted that dinghy and took off five dead bodies and a number of other people. But left others who "didn't want to be rescued". For God's sake people died on that boat. It was a crime scene. The people responsible were on it. Never mind rescue they should have all been arrested and questioned.

And today there are more pictures of French Police stood looking on while another boat is launched without a twig or pickaxe handle in sight. If the French are going to do nothing why are we paying them? Forget the money, send a Met Riot Squad with Tasers and Tear Gas. It's a sick joke.

[oldbluefox]

"If you get halfway the English have boats and they will pick you up".
A hopeful immigrant. That is what they are being told so little wonder the boats keep coming when we are providing them with a taxi service. The French meanwhile are quite happy to ensure they get to British waters.

[barney]

I suppose that if we looked at the situation through French eyes, you’d ask yourself why would they try to stop them.
They obviously don’t want to be in France.
Ironically, many pay a fortune to holiday in France while many others pay a fortune to get out.
If the illegal immigrants used the uk as a passage to Ireland, we’d probably help them on their way out.

[oldbluefox]

Here we go!!
Following the stampede by the Household Cavalry horses, we now have queries about the use of horses in London.
Tonight we had a horse psychologist who can sense when horses are stressed and consequently she knows the stresses experienced by these horses and thinks they should not be used by cavalry regiments.
What a dull, drab world it will be if these people all get their way.

[oldbluefox]

I suppose that if we looked at the situation through French eyes, you’d ask yourself why would they try to stop them.
They obviously don’t want to be in France.
Ironically, many pay a fortune to holiday in France while many others pay a fortune to get out.
If the illegal immigrants used the uk as a passage to Ireland, we’d probably help them on their way out.

What a good idea!!!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Here we go!!
Following the stampede by the Household Cavalry horses, we now have queries about the use of horses in London.
Tonight we had a horse psychologist who can sense when horses are stressed and consequently she knows the stresses experienced by these horses and thinks they should not be used by cavalry regiments.
What a dull, drab world it will be if these people all get their way.

Splendid idea. Cavalry regiments without horses. We could call them...... infantry.

Next, the Grand National without horses, where the jockeys run and jump over the fences.

[oldbluefox]

And we can all go to a museum and reminisce when horses used to parade through London.
Why is it it only takes one incident to bring so-called experts out and agitate to change traditions which have been with us for centuries.
These horses are highly trained and well cared for to the extent they all have a rank of their own (or so I was told).

[Mervyn and Trish]

Maybe they should ban construction work in cities too. That seemed to be the trigger.

[david63]

That seemed to be the trigger.

So what was Roy Rodgers doing in London?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Standing for Parliament?

[oldbluefox]

Posh names these horses had - Vida, Trojan, Quaker and Tennyson. Of course we are talking about the Household Cavalry. What happened to Neddy and Dobbin?

Apparently one was quite badly hurt and is now in an equine hospital. Hope it and they all make a quick recovery.

[Stephen]

And they might not return to duty.

London horses: 'Too early to know' if Cavalry horses will return to duty https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68895233

[screwy]

Bit rich of the Irish protesting about migrants, considering they migrated to every corner of the planet.!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Perhaps we could persuade the French to sent them directly there. Cut out the middle man. And all in the EU so no border controls.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Angela van den Bogerd seems to have a pretty poor memory for someone who once held a senior executive position in the Post Office and a key player in the Horizon scandal. Another one who should be on trial for perjury and perverting the course of justice in my view.

[Ray B]

Foxy,you asked what's happened to Neddy and Dobbin, ask Keith, he's got a two way bet on them.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Why the surprise and angst that the UK won't accept asylum seekers back from Ireland, in the EU? France, also in the EU, won't accept them back from us. Fair's fair.

However, why not keep things simple? Those now arriving in Ireland almost certainly came from France in the first place. So Ireland, send them directly back to France. You're both in the EU. Cut out the middle man.

[Ray B]

We could off asylum seekers a free bus pass to the Irish border, that may help with the numbers.

[Onelife]

Unless France is going to start direct asylum flights to Ireland, I don’t think Ireland have much to worry about with regard to an influx of illegal immigrants.

[Onelife]

What a complete bloody mess this country has got itself into.

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-ha ... t-13126025

It’s not as if we couldn’t see this coming…. More handouts, more crime, Britons decline.

[Slapstick]

What a complete bloody mess this country has got itself into.

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-ha ... t-13126025

It’s not as if we couldn’t see this coming…. More handouts, more crime, Britons decline.

It comes as no surprise, the problem is no one creally knows how to deal with it.

I'm by no means a reformist, but their return them to France policy certainly seems the correct one.

It's legal and in time the message will be clear, come here and you get returned, it would stop 90% of the attempts.

[towny44]

Why are these "asylum seekers" paying thousands to illegally enter the UK, surely all they need is a tourist visa and a couple of nights reservation at an Airbnb, and they can get a flight here, then apply legally for asylum. That must be a far cheaper option?

[Onelife]

The way I see things is that we have allowed ourselves to be governed by laws such as Human Rights and the United Nations convention laws of the sea which are making it nigh impossible to stop the illegal immigrants attempting theses crossings…we need to absolve ourselves from the repercussions of taking a much tougher line, a line whereby we use a short, sharp, this is what happens if you breach our shores illegally. I would advocate a policy of “sea push backs” and direct return flights from where these migrants have fled. This may sound heartless but I don’t think a large percentage of asylum seekers are genuinely fleeing persecution but do so for economic opportunity…. whilst accepting this is a broad statement which will not cover all personal circumstances.

[david63]

Nothing changes.

I can recall some years back one of our illustrious MPs asking the question of the then Home Secretary "How many illegal immigrants are there in the country"